China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched in the coming months from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China National ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

Japanese Scientists Discover Salt Minerals on Asteroid Ryugu ...

By T.J. Ray Columnist “Earth is a miracle. Zooming around our sun at 67,000 mph – while our solar system moves throughout our galaxy and the galaxy itself spins across the heavens at supersonic speeds ...

Some are as big as the Statue of Liberty. But these aren’t asteroids from our own solar system– they may have come from an ...

Tylos is a gas giant 900 light-years away - and astronomers have now mapped its astonishing atmosphere in 3D for the first ...

A space rock the size of a shopping mall, named 2024 YR4, is zooming through the solar system at more than 10 kilometers per ...

China's Tianwen-2 mission probe arrived at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on February 20, according to the China ...

St. Cloud State University Assistant Professor Rachel Humphrey explains why Mercury and Saturn are tougher to pick out. “The ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on ...